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I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.
Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.
It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.
In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.
The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.
Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.
I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.
I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.
The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty within themselves.
I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in George W. Bush.
Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.
It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.
When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body.
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.
When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
Independent of others and in concert with others, your main task in life is to do what you can best do and become what you can potentially be.
Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
If you mean, "My gut feeling is telling me this; therefore I can act on it and I don't have to worry," we say you should never trust your gut.
I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.
[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.
People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.
It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your (body), no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.
If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.
Usually a person relates to another under the tacit assumption thatthe other shares his view of reality, that indeed there is only onereality.
This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.